Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Quote of the Day

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
-- Redd Foxx

Monday, March 30, 2009

Quote of the Day

The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought '42 will do' I typed it out. End of story.
-- Douglas Adams (on why "42" is The Answer...)

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Quote of the Day

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities.
-- Theodore Seuss Geisel

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Quote of the Day

As I got up in front of them, I felt an intoxication that had nothing to do with alcohol. It was the intoxication of being a public spectacle.
-- Homer J. Simpson

Week in Review

- Friday Random Ten: 2009-03-27
- My hovercraft is full of eels
- Hyperactive!
- I may need a new irony meter
- Friday Random Ten: 2009-03-20
- Science!
- Black Clouds & Silver Linings
- Treason
- Stupid Quotes
- Friday Random Ten: 2009-03-13

Friday, March 27, 2009

Quote of the Day

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Quote of the Day

My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a 15 year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims, like he invented the question mark. Sometimes, he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy - the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical: summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring, we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent, I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds. Pretty standard, really.
-- Dr. Evil

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Quote of the Day

True, it returns "" for false, but "" is an even more interesting number than 0.
-- Larry Wall in <199707300650.XAA05515@wall.org>

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Quote of the Day

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
-- Mark Twain

Monday, March 23, 2009

Quote of the Day

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
-- Eugene McCarthy

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Quote of the Day

This job would be great if it wasn't for the fucking customers.
-- Randal Graves

Friday, March 20, 2009

Quote of the Day

I suspect that today if you asked people to justify their belief in God, the dominant reason would be scientific. Most people, I believe, think that you need a God to explain the existence of the world, and especially the existence of life. They are wrong, but our education system is such that many people don't know it.
-- Richard Dawkins

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Quote of the Day

It's been suggested that if the supernaturalists really had the powers they claim, they'd win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science. Either way, why are they wasting their talents doing party turns on television?
-- Richard Dawkins

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Quote of the Day

This is crazy! Why are we talking about going to bed with Wilma Flintstone? She'll never leave Fred and we know it.
-- Dave Lister

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Quote of the Day

The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.
-- Terry Pratchett (Wyrd Sisters)

Monday, March 16, 2009

Quote of the Day

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
-- A. Whitney Brown

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Quote of the Day

Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.
-- Douglas Adams

Friday, March 13, 2009

Quote of the Day

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
-- Frank Zappa

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Quote of the Day

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
-- Richard Dawkins

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Quote of the Day

I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
-- Eddie Izzard

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Quote of the Day

Music is essentially useless, as life is.
-- George Santayana

Monday, March 09, 2009

Quote of the Day

A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful software systems have been designed by committees and built as part of multipart projects, those software systems that have excited passionate fans are those that are the products of one or a few designing minds, great designers. Consider Unix, APL, Pascal, Modula, the Smalltalk interface, even Fortran; and contrast them with Cobol, PL/I, Algol, MVS/370, and MS-DOS.
-- Fred Brooks

Sunday, March 08, 2009

Quote of the Day

I don't have a fear of heights. I do, however, have a fear of falling from heights.
-- George Carlin

Saturday, March 07, 2009

Quote of the Day

I think that all good, right thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being sick and tired. I'm certainly not, and I'm sick and tired of being told that I am!
-- Monty Python

Week in Review

- Friday Random Ten: 2009-03-06
- Class Warfare, Again
- Reading: _The Truth (with jokes)_
- Tea Bag
- Friday Random Ten: 2009-02-27
- Volcano Monitors
- Jindal Versus the Volcano
- 230,000
- Friday Random Ten: 2009-02-20
- Nougalar Proliferation

Friday, March 06, 2009

Quote of the Day

"What shall we do?" said Twoflower.

"Panic?" said Rincewind hopefully. He always held that panic was the best means of survival; back in the olden days, his theory went, people faced with hungry sabretoothed tigers could be divided very simply into those who panicked and those who stood there saying "What a magnificent brute!" and "Here, pussy."

-- Terry Pratchett (The Light Fantastic)

Thursday, March 05, 2009

Quote of the Day

Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!
-- Henry David Thoreau

Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Quote of the Day

I'm never gonna get used to the 31st century. Caffineated bacon? Baconated grapefruit? ADMIRAL Crunch?
-- Philip J. Fry

Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Quote of the Day

Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.
-- Henri Poincare

Monday, March 02, 2009

Quote of the Day

I'm a superhero, Mother. An effete British superhero.
-- Blue Raja

Sunday, March 01, 2009

Quote of the Day

The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.
-- Albert Einstein